Games?

[david]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 12:04 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On 10/27/05, Morten W. J. <morten at newtec.dk> wrote:
> > Does anybody have any experience what so ever with running games on Ubuntu?
> 
> All idsoftware games (quake3/4, doom3) run very well on ubuntu. Also
> all ut games (ut classic, ut2k3/ut2k4) run okay. They all have linux
> binaries for x86 only, though.
> 
> > I think of games like War/Star-craft, World of Warcraft, Half Life/ Counter
> > Strike, Far Cry etc.
> 
> Most of the games you mention use DirectX. You can try to emulate a
> windows installation using Wine. Transgaming is selling cedega, which
> promises to have the best DirectX support available. Check their
> website.


I've had Warcraft/Frozen throne running fine with cedega.
Once cedega is installed you invoke the Warcraft setup.exe from the
command line.
cedega /cdrom/setup.exe

Other games I've had running on Linux; GTA-Vice City, GTA3, UT,
UT2003/4, Call of Duty, Medal of Honour.

Have a look at the "known to work with Cedega" list at Transgamings
site. (The list is surprisingly long).
Also, http://www.liflg.org/ - this site has links to installer scripts
for various games, with or without cedega (aka winex).

Hope that helps some...

nux